Yvonne Guidry: Spoiled with style

Yvonne Garza-Guidry started her Spoiled Latina style and fashion blog in 2008 and has since generated a large social-media presence with mor than 14,000 Instagram followers. She also was named a top blogger by Cosmopolitan Latiina.

Yvonne Garza-Guidry started her Spoiled Latina style and fashion blog in 2008 and has since generated a large social-media presence with mor than 14,000 Instagram followers. She also was named a top blogger by

Yvonne Garza-Guidry started her Spoiled Latina style and fashion blog in 2008 and has since generated a large social-media presence with more than 14,000 Instagram followers. She also was named a top blogger by Cosmopolitan Latiina. less

Yvonne Garza-Guidry started her Spoiled Latina style and fashion blog in 2008 and has since generated a large social-media presence with more than 14,000 Instagram followers. She also was named a top blogger by ... more

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Yvonne Guidry started her hugely popular Spoiled Latina blog in 2008.

Yvonne Guidry started her hugely popular Spoiled Latina blog in 2008.

Photo: Laurie Perez Photography

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Style hero:
Jennifer Lopez

Style hero:
Jennifer Lopez

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One must-keep:
Chanel quilted bag

One must-keep:
Chanel quilted bag

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Favorite cocktail: Hennessey with Cherry Coke

Favorite cocktail: Hennessey with Cherry Coke

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Favorite vacation destination: Jamaica

Favorite vacation destination: Jamaica

Photo: Chee-Onn Leong

Yvonne Guidry: Spoiled with style

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Despite the name of her blog, you get the sense that Yvonne Guidry is far from being spoiled.

She started her popular fashion and beauty blog, Spoiled Latina, in 2008 after someone called her, well, a "spoiled Latina."

But she took it as a compliment.

"Women should spoil themselves," Guidry says. "My mom doesn't spoil herself enough. She's always cooking too much, cleaning too much. One of my favorite ways to spoil myself is staying home with my son and playing with his trains."

Born in Corpus Christi and raised in Edinburg in the Rio Grande Valley, Guidry studied marketing at the University of Texas-Pan American before moving to Houston at 22 in search of better job opportunities.

"I wanted to prove to my family that I was able to make it on my own," she says. "I knew I needed to leave the Valley to make something of myself and to help my family in any way that I could."

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Guidry had planned on completing her degree, but in 2004 met Henry "G-Dash" Guidry, the CEO of Swisha House/Swisha Blast, the Houston independent rap record label with top-selling artists such as Mike Jones, Slim Thug and Paul Wall. The two started dating and married in 2006.

"It was a small label when we met, and I saw he needed help. So I started handling the marketing. I booked all the artists' performances, their TV appearances and media interviews. I even hired the models for their videos.

"I was lucky enough they respected my ideas."

As Guidry worked for the label behind the scenes, she started Spoiled Latina (spoiledlatina.com) as way to express her passion for style.

In 2013, she was featured in Cosmopolitan for Latinas as a top blogger, with more 14,000 Instagram followers. That same year, her Spoiled Latina popularity gave her the opportunity to be a Hennessy (Cognac) ambassador. She now attends events to expand the brand's presence in Houston's Latino market. Last month, she and other ambassadors from across the country flew to Paris for training.

"There I was, this little Latina girl from South Texas in Paris for Team Hennessy," she says. "I feel like I'm living a dream. Not knowing what will happen next, but excited."

So what's next?

Guidry auditioned in March for E! News Now, an online program, after a producer with the network saw her videos on spoiledlatina.com. She's waiting to hear back.

"Just the fact that they reached out to me, wanting me to audition, showed me that I must be doing some-thing right," she says. "It's definitely a validating experience for me. People are really watching." Yvonne Guidry

Home: Cypress, with her husband, 4-year-old son and a 14-year-old Shih Tzu